Why was minimum wage started?

In the United States, President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, which guaranteed a minimum wage to ensure that minimum standards of living were able to be met by...
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What year did the federal minimum wage go into effect&how much
was the minimum wage?

The United States has not always had a minimum-wage law. The federally mandated minimum-wage law began in 1938. It was enacted by the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. At the time, the federall...
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Why was the minimum wage set?

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) into law in June 1938, he put the principle of a federal minimum wage into action. The minimum wage was intended to p...
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